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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics had nothing to do with the Mitchell appointment, because he boasts that he is an "oldfashioned independent Democrat," except that he voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge in 1924, Hoover in 1928. Slender, brown-eyed, gently persuasive in manner, a sailor of summer boats on White Bear Lake, Minn., Mr. Mitchell is a practicing Dry, a Presbyterian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Postmaster-General. Walter Folger Brown of Ohio studied his politics at the knee of Mark Hanna in the 18903. Since then he has improved considerably upon the Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

HARVARD 110th F. A. G. O. Clark, No. 1 No. 1, Jenkius Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Brown F. A. Clark, back back, Mancini...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RIDERS FACE ARTILLERY MALLETMEN | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...evening dinner in the Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ENGLAND TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION WILL MEET HERE THIS AFTERNOON | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

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